BSA Annual Conference Programme
Keele University
1st – 3rd September 2014
Outline
(for oral presentations and speakers, see pages 3-6)
Quick guide:
Keynotes
Themed talks
Exhibition
Posters
Clinical workshops
Special events
MONDAY 1st September
Time
WESTMINSTER
THEATRE
LECTURE ROOM
ONE (0.061)
MEETING ROOM
1.098
10.00 – 11.00
11.00 – 12.00
BSA Council
meeting
12.00 – 1.00
EXHIBITION
SUITE
Exhibitor set up
POSTERS
Poster set up
Exhibitor set up
Lunch
Session 1
13.00 – 14.00
14.00 – 15.45
Introduction to
conference
Keynote I:
Prof Anne Schilder
Symposium
From hair cells to
hearing
(see outline)
Sponsor/Clinical
Workshop
15.45 – 16.15
Exhibition
Poster
viewing
Refreshments
16.15 – 17.15
Symposium
continued
17.15 – 18.00
Twilight lecture : Prof
Trevor Cox
(Author of Sonic
Wonderland)
Sponsor /Clinical
wokshop
Social event:
wine/nibbles +
dinner
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TUESDAY 2nd September
TIME
WESTMINSTER
THEATRE
LECTURE ROOM
ONE (0.061)
MEETING ROOM
1.098
EXHIBITION
SUITE
POSTERS
Exhibition
refreshments
Poster
viewing
Session 2
08.30 – 09.30
09.30 – 10.30
10.30 – 11.00
11.00 - 12.00
Keynote II:
Dr Stefan Launer
BSA AGM (30 mins)
Professional Practice
Committee
symposium
12.00 – 13.00
Meeting with
sponsors
New members
workshop
Lunch
Sponsor/clinical
workshop
Exhibition
Session 3
13.00 – 14.00
14.00 – 15.45
Keynote 3:
Prof T Ricketts
Oral presentations
ARIG Discussion
Forum “Who defines
Rehabilitation?”
15.45 - 16.15
Refreshments
16.15 – 17.00
Oral presentations
17.00 – 17.30
AoHL presentation
BSA Awards
Ceremony
Poster prizes
Conference dinner in
Keele Hall
19.30 – 23.00
Poster
viewing
Forum continued
Sponsor/clinical
workshop
Exhibition
WEDNESDAY 3rd September
Session 4
TIME
08.30 – 9.30
WESTMINSTER
THEATRE
UK Biobank Update
9.30 – 10.30
Innovation forum
10.30 – 12.30
LECTURE ROOM
ONE (0.061)
MEETING ROOM
1.098
APD Special Interest
Group
Balance Interest
Group
12.30 – 13.30
13.30 –– 14.30
14.30 – 16.00
Journal club
Adult Hearing
Screening
EXHIBITION
SUITE
Exhibition
Refreshments
POSTERS
Poster
viewing
Exhibition closes
Lunch
Ted Evans Lecture
Prof Corne Kros
Oral presentations
(Basic Science)
Oral presentations
(clinical/translational)
End of meeting
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BSA Annual Conference 2014
Oral presentations
Monday 1st September
Westminster Theatre
13.00. Opening Keynote I: Scientific evidence within the clinical context
Prof. Anne Schilder, University College London.
14. 00. Symposium: From Hair Cells to Hearing
14.00. The sensory hair cell in normal hearing and disease.
Prof. Dave Furness, Keele University
14.35. Coding of acoustic information in the auditory pathway
Prof. Alan Palmer, MRC Institute of Hearing Research, Nottingham.
15.10. Integrating acoustic and electric information following cochlear implantation
Dr. Padraig Kitterick, NIHR Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Unit.
15.45 Break
16.15. Listening difficulties and auditory processing disorder (APD) in children: proposed
mechanisms
Prof. Dave Moore, Communication Sciences Research Center, Cincinnati Children’s
Hospital and Department of Otolaryngology, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA;
17.15. The Twilight Lecture: The Acoustics Behind Sonic Wonderland
Prof. Trevor Cox Salford University, Manchester.
18.00 Social event – wine and nibbles
[Poster session: 14.00-17.15]
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Tuesday 2nd September
Westminster Theatre
8.30. Keynote II: Hearing instrument technology in the age of connectivity
Dr Stefan Launer, Phonak, Zurich, Switzerland
9.30. BSA AGM
10.30. Professional Practice Committee Symposium – How you can make audiology better
10.30. Introduction
Graham Frost, PPC Vice Chair
10.35. What PPC is doing to make audiology better
Dr Daniel Rowan, ISVR, Southampton University.
11.00. The impact of NICE accreditation
Deborah Collis, Associate Director, Accreditation and Quality Assurance, NICE
11.30. PPC docuemts: What, How, When? It’s your turn.
Dr Sebastian Hendricks, Barnet & Chase Farm Hospitals and the RNTNEH
11.55 Summary
Graham Frost.
12.00 – 13.00. Lunch
13.00. Keynote III: Speech recognition and spatialisation in complex listening environments:
effects of hearing aids and processing
Prof. Todd Rickets Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center for Otolaryngology, Nashville, USA
14.00. BSA Adult Rehabiltiation Interest Group Discussion forum on patient-centred care:
“Who defines rehabilitation?”
(i) shared decision making
(ii) facilitating change through developing self-efficacy
(iii) outcome measures for clinicians and researchers
Led by Amanda Casey, Dr. Helen Pryce and Dr. Mel Ferguson
14.00-17.00. Oral presentations (submitted) - tbc end-July
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17.00-17.30. Action on Hearing Loss presentation
BSA Awards Ceremony and Poster Prizes
19.30-23.00. Conference dinner in Keele Hall
[Poster sessions: 8.30-12.00 and 14.00-17.00]
Wednesday 3rd September
Westminster Theatre
8.30-9.30. Large scale hearing studies using the UK Biobank resource
Introduction to UK Biobank session
Prof. Kevin Munro, University of Manchester.
Hearing in middle age: a population snapshot
Prof. Kevin J Munro.
Cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption and hearing
Dr. Piers Dawes, University of Manchester.
Speech in noise hearing, pure tone threshold and cognition
Prof. David Moore, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, USA.
Hearing loss and cognitive decline: the role of hearing aids, social isolation and
depression
Dr. Piers Dawes
Concluding comments
Dr. Piers Dawes
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Session I
10.30-11.15. BSA Auditory Processing Disorder SIG update: Onwards and Upwards
Dr Nicci Campbell, ISVR, University of Southampton, and Prof Dave Moore,
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, USA.
11.15-12.00. BSA Balance Interest Group update
The Video Head Impulse Test and its relationship to caloric testing
Dr Steven Bell, Hearing and Balance Centre, University of Southampton.
Motivational approach to behaviour change in vestibular rehabilitation to
improve clinic attendance
Dr Nicola Topass, Audiology Department, Royal Surrey County Hospital.
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Session II
10.30-12.30. BSA Journal Club: Adult Hearing Screening
Led by Dr Cherilee Rutherford, Dr Lorraine Gailley, John Day
12.30 Lunch
13.30. Keynote IV: Ted Evans Lecture: 'Adventures in mammalian mechanotransduction:
adaptation, aminoglycosides and anomalous currents'
Prof. Corne Kros, University of Sussex, Brighton.
14.30 Oral Presentations (Basic science, translational research, clinical research - submitted)
– tbc end-July
[Poster session: 8.30-12.30]
16.00. Conference Close
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